Street Fighter: The Movie is something special, and I only mostly mean that in the short bus sense. Even among its videogame movie peers it's a film that stands out as a monument to sheer, unbridled lunacy. It takes some serious testicular fortitude to take franchise at the height of its hype and treat it with all the reverence of a 60s Batman episode. Martial artists Ryu and Ken are transformed into gun runners. Chun Li is a television journalist. Indian stretchy-guy Dhalsim is a doctor forced to perform super-soldier experiments on Blanka... The result might possibly be one of the most enjoyably painful movie experiences of all time, though it's something best enjoyed in the company of friends and liquor. Great care should be taken not to watch the thing alone, and never with sharp objects or firearms in easy reach.

To celebrate the baffling release of the Street Fighter on Blu-Ray I've decided to subject myself to the film again for the first time in fifteen years and share a few of its most memorably batshit crazy moments.

Colonel VanGuile shows those peacenick diplomats a thing or two with the most amazing motivational speech ever. He comes off like a really short William Wallace with a head injury, which is more than enough to whip his army into a somewhat halfhearted frenzy.

Comments (56)

Seriously

You just called this movie awesome. Jump off the nearest anything................right now.

I could think of at least 20 actors right now that would have been better than Raul Julia for Bison (R I P btw) And what was I expecting? I love when people defend game movies with statements like these. Well Street Fighter has such a long history, I was expecting it to actually have something to do with um, the games maybe?

"Colonel, have you lost your mind?"

I'm surprised that Street Fighter: The Movie wasn't nominated for an award for best screenplay...

not really

I really never understood how Balrog, Chun-Li and E. Honda could be news reporters. Couldn't they have found a Jamaican actor to play Dee Jay? Where was Fei Long? If they could've had Jackie Chan as Fei Long that would've improved this train wreck of a film. At least they casted Guile and Bison correctly. Who better than Jean Claude and Raul Julia for these types of roles?

Awesome

I don't know what the rest of you are smoking but this is one of my favourite movies of all time. I still watch this movie all the time. What exactly were you expecting out of a movie like this anyway?

Bison has that great conversation Chun Li where he goes: "For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me? It was Tuesday."

It wasn't that bad

Ok at least I was able to sit through the whole thing of this.
Legend of Chun Li was way way worst than this! At least this
tried to give you some fan boy moments. Where I lived, Legend of
Chun Li was taken out of theatres after a week! This one was at
least tolerable and funny as well. Where was Fei Long in the
movie?? ahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Colonel Guile, have you lost your mind?

The funniest line in the movie, hands-down! Although, Zangief
saying "Quick, change the channel!" was funny
too! It looked like Van Damme was trying not to laugh or he
couldn't believe he was saying such a stupid line when he said it.

I cried a little

i went back in time for a moment to look at my 10 year old self just say your an ass for wanting to watch that and kicked myself in the balls for it. sadly like today i still saw it, this time with my 3 kids. oh the horror.

The memories...

I saw this at the movie theater when I was like... 10-12 years old. My taste in movies was horrible back then but I still remember walking out once the credits came on and thinking, "that was horrible".

The Irony

They laugh at us

in the end you can hear someone laughing, probably at us for having watched this pile of crap. In the end they probably told them to do their pose so we would recognize the characters. Laugh at us some more please.

...pass on the list....

...and when you are done with the list, please pass it to me so i can kick them all in the D*CK so hard that the next batch of idiots with any intentions of getting this utter waste of film will feel it....

get me the names....

I wish I could get the names of the 12 people who would actually pay for this junk. What a waste of a blu ray. I remember seeing this in the theater and being one of 4 people left by the credits. I'm sure we'll see another remake of it at some point in the future, but maybe then they'll actually do it justice. heheh...

OMG So bad.....

Watching that clip reminds me how disappointed I was with the movie. It was entertaining thanks to Raul Julia, but the rest of the cast is TERRIBLE. I never understood how they could get actors for this movie which seemed to stray so far from the original character art. Where is Ken Blonde Hair? Why is Ryu Asian? Ugh well here's to the new Street Fighter movie doing a better job this time around.

I have to humbly disagree;

There is at least one noteworthy scene left out of this list; when a few of the cast is in a tent huddled around a TV, watching a closed-circuit feed of a truck coming at them, and Zangeif yells 'QUICK, CHANGE THE CHANNEL!"

That line is too stupid to be funny, but everyone looks at him in dismay, and that they acknowledge how dumb it is for someone to say that is a hilarious bit of fourth-wall breaking.

Is there an official blu-ray release site?

Every now and then I see a movie I'd like to buy, but it's not available on blu-ray. Is there a site that I can go to find every movie on blu-ray and soon to come ones? If anyone knows I'd be thankful. Also, I hated this movie as a kid and I loved street fighter so much.

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Oh man

Kind of hilarious seeing Guile all Frenchified leading the Allied Nations. Actually, it kind of surprises me that they didn't even overlook that detail and pretend like Jean Claude Van Damme didn't even have an accent and was a true blue American. If only someone got Gerard Butler to drop his accent for 300 I probably wouldn't have laughed at a few scenes. Not that Scottish accents were the worst thing going for that one...

Sharkey, well done!

People say not to beat a dead horse, but when you replace "dead horse" with "awful video game movie" and "beat" with "sardonically ridicule," it's tough to end up with anything short of brilliance, at least when it's coming from one such as yourself.

Even the "stop with the top ten lists!" crowd has to admit that this is pretty excellent.

And Zangief?

How about Zangief's ones? When the van filled with explosives goes to the gate and they are watching it in the camera, and Zangief says "quickly, change the channel" or something like that must have been the only part that made me laugh. After that movie I became adult and stopped caring about games. Until NDS arrived.

MK vs SF

This is the only medium in which Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat could be compared and see MK come up on top. At least MK delivered actual fight scenes and characters that resembled their video game originals. Hell, I think that guy who played Kano was damn near PERFECT. Shame he died a few years ago.

I think you're doing a real service here, Sharkey. If anyone hasn't seen the movie and is even considering renting it, watching these clips should convince them of its atrocities. Why hasn't anyone managed to do this for Batman & Robin yet?